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Rita Karin
Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
She was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup. Also appeared at the beginning of Sophie's Choice as Ye…
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She was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup. Also appeared at the beginning of Sophie's Choice as Yetta, Sophie's (Meryl Streep) landlady. Her voice can be heard singing children's songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
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1993
The Pickle
Movie Grandmother
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1991
He Said, She Said
Movie Mrs. Spepk
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1991
Age Isn't Everything
Movie Flo
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1989
Enemies, a Love Story
Movie Mrs. Schreier
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1989
Chicken Soup
TV show Bea Fisher
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1985
Kojak: The Belarus File
Movie
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1984
Kate & Allie
TV show
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1982
Sophie's Choice
Movie Yetta
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1981
Starstruck
Movie Mrs. Reuben
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1978
The Big Fix
Movie Aunt Sonya
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1978
Matilda
Movie Spectator
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1974
Nicky's World
Movie Mrs. Mylonas
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1972
Up the Sandbox
Movie Mrs. Grossbard (uncredited)
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1972
ABC Afterschool Special
TV show Mrs. Reuben
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1971
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Movie Mrs. Goldfarb
